14 Best Quotes of photographer in World photography day August 19

Quotes of Photographer, The soft click of the camera, a flash of light and a moment in time captured forever. Maybe digitally, maybe on film, the medium is never as important as the memory or moment caught. A group of people, a sunset, or even a fish jumping out of the water, a photograph is a way to feel the emotion and context of that exact moment. Celebrate that, on this picturesque Photography Day!

Photography is more than just a skill or talent, it's a passion which needs constant fulfillment. Whether you are an amateur or a professional photographer, these inspirational photography quotes would motivate you to find your passion and love for photography. Learn from and get inspired by these photography quotes from famous photographers such as Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mark Denman, Ted Grant, Annie Leibovitz amongst many others.

Our selected list of famous inspirational quotes on photography would not just inspire you, but also help you look at the art of photography in a whole new “light”.

Quotes of photographer

Ansel Adams -- “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”

Robert Capa -- If your pictures aren’t good enough you’re not close enough.”

David Alan Harvey --“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.”

Marc Riboud -- “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”

Robert Frank -- “The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”

Alfred Eisenstaedt -- “When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”

Irving Penn -- “A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.”

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

— Ansel Adams

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

— Aaron Siskind

“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.”

— Don McCullin

“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”

— Edward Steichen

“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”

— Paul Caponigro

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”

— Andy Warhol

“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”

— Diane Arbus

“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.”

— Scott Lorenzo

“A tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a persons life that reveal greater truths.”

— Anonymous

“Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.”

— Anonymous

“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”